Board of Aldermen 04-12-2022 Page 9
going to come up with 11 feet for a handicap van and also have - it has to be 11 feet wide and you need a five foot access
route. Plus, they have to not have a step. That handicap person has to not have to step up. Well, if they go on onto a
sidewalk, they have to step up. | don't understand how this is compliant. | don't get it. I'd like to hear somebody explain
that to me. | think that this is just being pushed through. | don't think it's being thought out thoroughly. You're just in a
hurry to get it done and | think it's wrong. | think us taxpayers - | think there should be more work done on this. The
taxpayer should have a big stake because we're paying. Thank you.
Scott
49 Congress Street, Apartment 6. I'd like to speak on behalf of the teachers’ contract. Please support the teachers’
contract and I'm agreeing with others about the barricades. If we can make it where it's safe for the Fire Department to
get by only maybe make it more interesting like make it better. It’s just a suggestion. | would like to see them think about
the barricades, but making them smaller. Maybe they'll put like towns like Manchester or other towns.
Please when the thing comes up at the Finance Committee about Access Nashua, please, Lori, please don't let
somebody take Access Nashua away from us. We need Access Nashua for access channel. Please when that comes
up at the Finance Committee, please have it in your heart to support Access Nashua because I'm a producer of Special
Talk and | need that channel. I've had our show on for 10 years and now they want to snatch it away.
President Wilshire
Scott, that's not on our agenda this evening, Scott.
scott
No just letting you know when the Finance Committee comes up and you - please have it in your guys hearts
to listen to both sides. Thank you for your time.
Representative Linda Harriott-Gathright
Good evening Madam President, and to the Board of Aldermen, and to our Mayor Donchess. | am calling in support of
the teachers’ contract. We have some of the best teachers that there is in the United States and | know that for a fact,
and | think that they deserve all that they're asking for. This has been a very difficult time particularly in the last three
years for our teachers as well as for our students. But they've done their best to keep our children afloat. So | appreciate
the work that Nashua teachers have done for our children that are here. I'm kind of grateful right now that | brought a few
children through the school system and several grandchildren, but right now | have no one school system in Nashua but |
still appreciate the work that has been done through the years and what's happening right now.
And secondly, | just want to all hats off to Alderman O’Brien for the excellent work that he did at the State House to bring
some funds back to the city. | appreciate that. | knew the hard work that he put through. We're actually going to have
this in the permanent journal for the State so that's something that the City of Nashua can always look back and hear and
understand his speech that day on the floor. One thing | can say, we were all very, very proud.
Last but not least in terms of a barrier, | support what's come back from committee in terms of the barrier. So I'm going to
make that short and just say hello to everyone there because | know you guys have a long night.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Okay, that is the end of our public comment period.
Elizabeth Lu
Elizabeth Lu, 17 Roby Street. | arrived late, so | wasn't able to get onto that list.
| think that the hopes of expanded dining downtown are a little bit could be incorrect. The way | see it, Nashua was one of
the few communities in southern New Hampshire that expanded their downtown right away when the COVID came. You
know | think it got a reputation for being a great outside space but after COVID when, you know, people can do more
close to their home, you're not going to - you may not see the same traffic through. | just want to point that out.
| get really troubled when people want to say that downtown is not a thoroughfare and that 40 miles per hour is just too
fast. People - | live close to downtown and | see people driving 25 miles per hour. If we have a problem with speeding,
